The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

The Hailin impact crater is a giant gouge in a Chinese hillside that was left by a asteroid which smashed ... but Chen and his colleagues say the event probably occurred sometime in the past ...

Impact events have been a plot and background element in science fiction. In April 2018, the B612 Foundation reported "It’s 100 percent certain we’ll be hit , but we’re not 100 percent certain when." ...

Scientists have identified the world's oldest asteroid crater in ... tell a story about the massive impact into the planet". Another theory for the warming event is that volcanic eruptions may ...

Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. It was widely ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2019 JN2 will safely fly past Earth on November 30, 2024. Despite its proximity of 3.59 ...

In an international study led by Western University and Lowell Observatory, scientists describe a pioneering, integrative ...

Astronomers have identified asteroid 2022 WJ1 as the smallest asteroid ever characterized, measuring just 16 to 27 inches in ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Asteroid 2022 WJ1 made first and final contact with our planet on November 19, 2022. It is now estimated to be an S-chondrite ...

Another hypothesis is that Phobos and Deimos formed very much like Earth's moon did — that an impact on the surface of Mars ...